Ten Sessions

Infobox Television episode
Title = Ten Sessions
Series = How I Met Your Mother
Season = 3
Episode = 13
Writer = Carter Bays & Craig Thomas
Director = Pamela Fryman
Airdate = March 24, 2008
Production = 3ALH13
Guests = Sarah Chalke (Stella), Britney Spears (Abby), Charlene Amoia (Wendy), Marshall Manesh (Ranjit), Christine Joaquin (Kourtney), Caroline Whitney-Smith (Brenda), Ria Pavia (Gloria), Don Creech (Old Guy)
Episode list =List of How I Met Your Mother episodes


Caption = Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby, with guest stars Sarah Chalke (of TV's "Scrubs") as Stella and pop singer Britney Spears as Abby.
Prev = No Tomorrow
Next = The Bracket

"Ten Sessions" is the 13^th episode in the third season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on March 24, 2008.

Plot

During his ten weekly sessions of laser tattoo removal, Ted tries to convince his tattoo removal doctor, Stella, to go on a date with him.Ted is at the clinic to remove his tattoo, where he is attracted to his doctor, Stella. They agree to go to a movie, but Ted doesn't realise Stella had brought her friends along with her, and it was not a date, as this is against AMA rules (as was mentioned in The Platinum Rule). At the next session, Ted suggests waiting till his ten sessions are over before asking her out, but Stella tells him she will still say no.Ted still feels that over ten weeks, she will start to like him, so decides to keep trying. Even though the first five sessions go well, Stella confirms her answer is still no. Ted decides that being nice to the receptionist, Abby, would be a good way to let Stella see his good side, but instead, Abby starts to show interest in him. Upset that this didn't work, Ted tries using a self help book he saw in Stella's clinic. When he tries talking to her about this, she reveals it isn't her book, and she detests it, while Abby confirms that Ted was reading the book in the reception.

Robin suggests Ted give up on Stella and instead focus on Abby. Barney agrees, as he made an appointment with Stella to check what she was like, and discovered she had a condition where she is only attracted to men with mustaches. Although Ted doesn't believe him, he still tries to grow a mustache, which Stella laughs at. Upset, Ted says he gives up, but Lily tells him to try again, as Stella is interested in him, though she says she has not been to see her. It is then revealed that Marshall had gone to see Stella to talk up Ted, and found out Stella had a crush on him. Happy that Stella is interested in him, Ted asks her out after his last session, but she says no, and tells him she has a daughter.

After a while, Ted realises she didn't actually say the word 'no', just that she didn't have time, and so decides to take her out on her two mintue lunch break. The date goes well, and Stella promises to call if she ever has time. Finally, Abby sees Ted outside the clinic holding flowers he tried to give to Stella, and chases him down the street. She is then seen at the reception telling Barney about how he toyed with her emotions, after which they go out to have sex.

Music

* "Thirteen" by Big Star

Notes

* After the first session, Marshall says that in ten weeks, he will want "Sloppy Joe, shrimp cocktail with a milkshake" for lunch. After the tenth session, he does in fact have that for lunch, where he offers Ted a shrimp.

Continuity

* Ted got his butterfly tramp stamp tattoo on his wild night out with Amy in Wait For It.
* In The Platinum Rule, Ted tells the group about his crush on his doctor and they try to convince him that he shouldn't date someone he sees regularly. The Platinum Rule takes place during the evening of Ted's first meeting with Stella and his movie "date" with her and her friends. Ted is wearing the same clothes to the movies that he wore during The Platinum Rule.
*Stella mentions that she went to a St. Patrick's day party, which could refer to the episode No Tomorrow, where Future Ted Mosby says that his wife was also at the same party.
*Robin in this episode is revealed as not knowing that Led Zeppelin, and not The Who, sang and wrote "Stairway to Heaven." This contrasts with an earlier episode in which Robin shows knowledge of the names of Led Zeppelin's members, implying that she should at least have some knowledge of "Stairway to Heaven", which is arguably Led Zeppelin's most famous song.
*In Brunch, Ted states that Barney always uses 83 percent when he makes up a statistic. Barney says in this episode that it takes a woman 8.3 seconds to find out if she's going to sleep with a man or not.

Trivia

*Sarah Chalke partially used the same costume from her role as Elliot Reid, from the TV show Scrubs, to play her role in this episode. [cite web| url= http://tv.ign.com/articles/871/871199p1.html|title=Sarah Chalke's How I Met Your Mother Adventures| publisher=IGN|accessdate=2008-05-2]
*The episode had the most number of viewers so far for the sitcom, due to the guest appearance of Britney Spears.Verify source|date=May 2008
*The two minute date actually took 2 minutes and 20 seconds, excluding the kiss.
*Stella tells Ted to come back in the future if he ever gets a tattoo of dolphins on his ankle. This is a reference to Alyson Hannigan (Lily) who has a tattoo of two dolphins on her ankle.

References

External links

* " [http://www.tv.com/how-i-met-your-mother/ten-sessions/episode/1188680/summary.html Ten Sessions] " at TV.com
* " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1204516/ Ten Sessions] " at the Internet Movie Database